Bijou Blog
Creative and critical movie writing from the Bijou team!
Regular features on the Bijou Blog include reviews, personal and critical essays, creative work, and more! For submissions, please contact bijouui.executive@gmail.com.
Listen in to Bijou Banter on KRUI Fridays at 11am (FM 89.7)!
BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (Peter Strickland, 2012)
Sunday, October 11, 2020
In anticipation of Bijou After Hours' upcoming virtual screening of In Fabric on the weekend of October 17th, we look back at Peter Strickland's second feature.
Occultism and Cutural Crisis: An Interview with Andrew Owens
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Lee Sailor: In your class, you mentioned early filmmakers, German expressionists, I think, who were interested in occultism and the occult. I was wondering if you could elaborate on that. Like, were they worshiping the devil or something?
Andrew Owens: No, no, at least not that I'm aware of.
Dispatches from True/False 2020 (Part 2)
Friday, May 15, 2020
It was around this point—after watching Collective, but before going to bed—that I heard South by Southwest had been canceled as a result of the pandemic.
Dispatches from True/False 2020 (Part 1)
Monday, May 11, 2020
Three days before leaving for True/False, I sent a dumb joke to the Bijou group chat. “A reminder that with coronavirus spreading everyone at True/False should take sensible precautions such as not licking strangers unless you are pretty sure they've washed their hands first.
Orlando
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Recently, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts put on a production of Orlando, a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel. It was incredible.
The Oath
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Laura Poitras is best known for Citizenfour, a documentary about Edward Snowden’s global surveillance disclosures which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2014, but few people have seen the preceding two films in the trilogy that Citizenfour completes - My Country, My Country (2006) and The Oath…
Diablo Cody: Jennifer's Body
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Hollow hallways permeated with a monolithic student body
Diablo Cody: Juno
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
For Juno, her whole experience started with a chair. My experience with Juno started with a text message. High school is where I began to take film more seriously, and I began looking for unique and different films to watch.
Le Bonheur
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
An Entry from Thérèse's Diary (if things had gone differently)
Pagination